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The Return of Nazi-looted Art: Choice of Law Issues

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In the late 1990s extraordinary attention, too long delayed, has been given to the return to Holocaust survivors and/or their descendants of art works that were taken from them during the Holocaust years. Other owners, under duress from Nazi persecution, simply fled and were unable to bring along their art collections. While sporadic attempts were made in the years following World War II to regain ownership of some of this art,1 with varying results, these efforts took place in relative isolation. Today, in contrast, a week seldom passes when a newspaper somewhere in the world does not report stories of families who seek to recover Nazi-looted art or who seek to be compensated by various governments such as Switzerland, Germany and Austria for Holocaust-related injuries.

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1878-1891

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978-0-333-80486-5

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Link to article (paywalled), The Return of Nazi-looted Art: Choice of Law Issues

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Yonover, Geri J. The Return of Nazi-looted Art: Choice of Law Issues. Remembering for the Future: The Holocaust in an Age of Genocide. Palgrave Macmillan. 2001: 1878-1891.  https://archive.jpr.org.uk/10.1007/978-1-349-66019-3_126